somebody has a trigger finger !

Skymed is too close to Skynet for my liking.

I believe the Skymet satellite has become self aware and as such has began launching missiles without our knowledge.
 
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I can accept that someone could get away with launching one missile without anyone knowing but I can't see them getting away with it a second time a day later. I would imagine that someone would come up with the bright idea of sending someone around to investigate the mystery missile. Said investigators would then probably find the source of the missiles as being the underwater lair of an evil genius hellbent on world domination.
 
US Military sources say it wasn't a missile.. it was a weather balloon :-p
 
Antar Bolaeisk said:
A rocket powered weather ballon!
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Skyfall said:
idk, "an underwater submarine fired a missile" is a perfectly valid sentence fragment afaik

It's really no different to saying "a volcano, an underwater volcano".
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I beg to differ. Volcanoes exist underwater and above water.

Submarines are designed to stay underwater and only surface in few circumstances. A submarine, an underwater submarine....just sounds wrong for an expert to say that. Here's a good catch: 'A fish, an underwater fish' :o *runs*
 
As I type this I'd imagine the crew of an Ohio class SSBN are frantically trying to get their story straight before they call in their little whoopsy to Pacific Fleet headquarters in Hawaii....
 
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Lysander said:
So you've worked this out but the Pentagon haven't?
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They asked the Navy... The 30th Space wing isn't apart of the Navy. I can virtually guarantee it would not be from another country. It would take balls of unimaginable size for the Russians or the Chinese to launch an ICBM 35 miles from the U.S. shore, even if it's pointed the other direction. The football would be sitting in Obama's lap, unlocked and waiting within minutes.
 
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sanaxe1 said:
They asked the Navy... The 30th Space wing isn't apart of the Navy. I can virtually guarantee it would not be from another country. It would take balls of unimaginable size for the Russians or the Chinese to launch an ICBM 35 miles from the U.S. shore, even if it's pointed the other direction. The football would be sitting in Obama's lap, unlocked and waiting within minutes.
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San Nicholas is, not to put too fine a point on it, a detachment of 200 or more airmen managed by the 30th space wing.

If you read between the lines, CBS asked the Navy if they launched anything and the Navy said "no" (because San Nicholas and the 30th space wing are Air Force territory). Then they asked Vandenberg if they launched anything and Vandenberg said "we haven't launched anything from Vandenberg since Friday" (because they launched something from San Nicholas).

Which is kind of exciting in its own right - Vandenberg doesn't give the first **** who shows up to watch their launches, they've got ********** bleachers set up. The only reason I wasn't at the COSMO-Skymed 4 launch on Friday is it was supposed to be the COSMO-Skymed 4 launch last Sunday and they delayed that launch four separate times.

I disagree with the ICBM-submarine theory because sub-launched missiles are tiny. That rocket looked to be at least a Delta II or possibly a Minotaur IV, both of which are too big for submarines.
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I have no idea what to think. Only that this is unimportant and will blow over in the next 24 hours or less.
 
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